# Government debt (% of GDP): Sweden

> Government debt (% of GDP) in Sweden was 35.1 % of GDP (2025).

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Latest value | 35.1 % of GDP |
| Period | 2025 (2025) |
| Change vs a year earlier | +1.1 percentage points |
| Frequency | year |

## Definition

General government gross debt as a share of GDP (Maastricht definition).

## Recent periods

| Period | % of GDP |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 35.1 |
| 2024 | 34.0 |
| 2023 | 32.3 |
| 2022 | 34.4 |
| 2021 | 37.5 |
| 2020 | 40.8 |
| 2019 | 36.3 |
| 2018 | 40.4 |
| 2017 | 42.2 |
| 2016 | 43.4 |
| 2015 | 45.0 |
| 2014 | 46.3 |

## Checks

Status: verified, 2026-10-31
- ok: range: latest 2025 = 35.1, allowed 0..250
- ok: fresh: latest 2025 ends 304 days ago, max 600

## Source and use

Data: Eurostat, dataset gov_10dd_edpt1, processed by SwedenMetrics.

Data licence: CC BY 4.0. Feel free to cite with a link to the page.

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